Away fans / tourists in home sections

Not been to the last 3 games due to some personal health issues. Newcastle Madrid and Liverpool at home all missed. I have never missed 3 home games on the trot. I am 51 now. Seen all the bad times and obviously all the good times.
I will be honest with you. Have I missed going to the last 3? I dont know is the answer. Most games are on tv so managed to watch them all. As a family I have 3 children..24,15 and 12 who all have season tickets in SL3 along with me. I also have 3 foster children who use the tickets should my 2 youngest not go. Its mainly my daughter as she rides,show jumps, races and dressage so is sometimes busy at weekends.
We are in 2 cup schemes fa cup and c.league but the c.league has become so sterile and boring now with seedings etc.
Would I let my tickets go ever? No because I would rather let friends and family utilise them. What is missing at City is some real old school fans. I want City to realise that we are a working class fan base. Price match day tickets accordingly F.F.Sake. The issue with away fans in the home end. You dont even need an account now. If you transfer the ticket to someone in your friends and family they can literally send it onto anyone with an apple wallet or android wallet and bingo away fans in the home end so as regards Sunday in 115 I am not sure how that stops. It was 1 fan who got leathered which I dont advocate but just keep quiet is the moral of the story.
I love going home and away. Leicester away this season was pure atmosphere , hardly any tourists. The etihad has good atmospheres on certain occasions but if you are asking for 70 quid for Brentford at home then it is simply to expensive.
I will be there soon. I have missed it if I am honest. Hoping to get there Saturday and also to Forest.
Season ticket prices are going to be interesting this year. Will the club listen. I doubt it.
Tourists with phones and half and half scarves are the scurge of football now. Player fans not club fans. I detest it
 
Ive been in various home ends, including United, Liverpool,. Everton and Leeds, but the only potential mither I've ever faced was at Luton in 98, when following Andy Morrison's goal it became apparent that we weren't the only City fans

If Liverpool fans were in our end and kept quiet then good for them

If they got twatted for being complete pricks then tough shit.

If a completely innocent neutral/tourist was smacked then that reflects badly on the perpetrator, but then again, there's been trouble at City-Liverpool games since the mid 60s.

Do these tourists not read newspapers?

On a slightly ironic and comedic theme there was a supporter in 219 who looked oriental and on first appearance might have been confused as a tourist
However when Liverpool scored it became apparent that his scarf was 100% Sky blue, and even funnier, he was actually pointing at a couple of alleged scousers.


Different story for Plymouth as English football isn't supposed to be played on a Saturday evening and the ridiculous kick off time for such a bastardised competition means that even some people on the cup scheme have already made plans and can't attend

We can't blame it on the price of the tickets and it's Plymouth's first ever game at the Etihad
It's their big day out, but we should be winning comfortably. If that doesn't happen then we should be questioning the management and not attacking fans in green scarves.
 
Marvin. said:
And 45% of Mancunians are black/Asian. If they come to City they are welcome, and they are equal.

Are there really more football tourists at City this season? I mean genuine football tourists? And if there are, if they buy the seat up from a seasoncard holder who has decided not to go, so what? I have been to Leeds Utd 3 times in the past 4 years because my friend invited me.

The problem I am interested in is excessive ticket prices that stop seasoncard holders from going to Cup games.
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If we aren't careful we will have blue on blue.
As someone who isn't a season ticket holder I think you guys have it easy. I don't mean that in a horrible way not at all. But we should be talking about all ticket prices.

I've said a thousand times since covid it's become all most impossible to get tickets.
We would do 10 plus pl matches and a few cl matches pre covid.
Now online for hours to get single tickets in different parts of the Etihad at 70quid a pop, or we don't qualify for knock out of cl because we haven't been to the early rounds.

Oh the club want us for the Plymouth game lol. I'm not doing a 600mile round trip for a 6pm kick. Get home about 2am when I'm not wanted for the RM match. Fucking do one City
 
My opinion. It doesn't mean I 'm right,

A football tourist is a general term for a person who isn't a City fan, and has come from abroad to watch a City (PL) match.

That person could have come from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Far East, the Americas, the Pacific countries, etc.

There is nothing racist about calling any of those people football tourists.
 
This is our local ‘Mums Community group’ on FB. Basically could be sold to anyone.
 

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Scaring Europe to Death said:
Ive been in various home ends, including United, Liverpool,. Everton and Leeds, but the only potential mither I've ever faced was at Luton in 98, when following Andy Morrison's goal it became apparent that we weren't the only City fans

If Liverpool fans were in our end and kept quiet then good for them

If they got twatted for being complete pricks then tough shit.

If a completely innocent neutral/tourist was smacked then that reflects badly on the perpetrator, but then again, there's been trouble at City-Liverpool games since the mid 60s.

Do these tourists not read newspapers?

On a slightly ironic and comedic theme there was a supporter in 219 who looked oriental and on first appearance might have been confused as a tourist
However when Liverpool scored it became apparent that his scarf was 100% Sky blue, and even funnier, he was actually pointing at a couple of alleged scousers.


Different story for Plymouth as English football isn't supposed to be played on a Saturday evening and the ridiculous kick off time for such a bastardised competition means that even some people on the cup scheme have already made plans and can't attend

We can't blame it on the price of the tickets and it's Plymouth's first ever game at the Etihad
It's their big day out, but we should be winning comfortably. If that doesn't happen then we should be questioning the management and not attacking fans in green scarves.
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I've got no problem with alot of the tourists. There is a way to make this work surely.

As you alluded to the "Oriental" City fans for example fukin love us! I would call them "fans"
 
Marvin. said:
And 45% of Mancunians are black/Asian. If they come to City they are welcome, and they are equal.

Are there really more football tourists at City this season? I mean genuine football tourists? And if there are, if they buy the seat up from a seasoncard holder who has decided not to go, so what? I have been to Leeds Utd 3 times in the past 4 years because my friend invited me.

The problem I am interested in is excessive ticket prices that stop seasoncard holders from going to Cup games.
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Did you cheer when the team Leeds were playing scored?
Did you wear a city shirt?
 
A tourist doesn't have to come from abroad. If I decide I want to "take in" (a vile phrase) a Newcastle game while I'm there for the weekend, I'd be a tourist.

The main issue is the club withholding tickets from normal channels (ie the club website and ticket office) and packaging them up for sites directed at tourists selling them at huge markups, which obviously happens when you see the stories on here.
 
Marvin. said:
And 45% of Mancunians are black/Asian. If they come to City they are welcome, and they are equal.

Are there really more football tourists at City this season? I mean genuine football tourists? And if there are, if they buy the seat up from a seasoncard holder who has decided not to go, so what? I have been to Leeds Utd 3 times in the past 4 years because my friend invited me.

The problem I am interested in is excessive ticket prices that stop seasoncard holders from going to Cup games.
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You probably won't find a more racist crowd than Leeds United, bar Millwall.

God forbid Leeds get promoted and the club starts syphoning off hundreds of tickets to tourists from around the world wearing half and half Leeds United and Manchester United scarfs when they play each other next season.
 
Matt Diablo said:
I've got no problem with alot of the tourists. There is a way to make this work surely.

As you alluded to the "Oriental" City fans for example fukin love us! I would call them "fans"
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Got off the train in Leeds about half nine on Sunday evening. There was a group of young Chinese in their City hats heading home. Usually there are more overseas students and British Asians getting off the train (particularly for CL group games) but, obviously, tickets for Sunday were harder to get and more expensive.

Like lots of other newish Blues, they will have gone to Cup games where it’s easy to get tickets and built up their attendance history to get to see us against the bin dippers. They aren’t put off by cold and wet midweek or Sunday night weather. They are very welcome.

The vast majority of people who make comments about tourists aren’t racists. The ones who take pics of our foreign fans and plaster them on social media because of the fans skin colour need a rocket up the arse. I’m not talking about clowns going to the game with a Man U shop bag.
 
Marvin. said:
And 45% of Mancunians are black/Asian. If they come to City they are welcome, and they are equal.

Are there really more football tourists at City this season? I mean genuine football tourists? And if there are, if they buy the seat up from a seasoncard holder who has decided not to go, so what? I have been to Leeds Utd 3 times in the past 4 years because my friend invited me.

The problem I am interested in is excessive ticket prices that stop seasoncard holders from going to Cup games.
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Yes, there are far more tourists at City this season (actually the biggest jump I think was last season after the treble and with the Haaland effect now in full swing).

All these factors are interlinked, it’s cause and effect.
More tourist demand leads to higher prices.
More tourist demand leads to the club supplying them through lucrative “hospitality” packages and 3rd party sites.
More tourists leads to diluted atmosphere, more SC holders thinking they’ll cash in for a couple of big games.

To me this slippery slope is more of a danger to the “matchday experience” than the “real” away fans in our end. There were literally thousands of uncommitted fans in EL1 on Sunday. No chance the atmosphere could get to where we were only 3 or 4 years ago.
 
I'm going to Bilbao and San Sebastián later this year. I'm going when the Europa Cup Final is on. There's a slight chance the Rags could get to the final. Perish the thought. If the Rags don't get to the final I will try and get a ticket for the final as part of my trip.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Got off the train in Leeds about half nine on Sunday evening. There was a group of young Chinese in their City hats heading home. Usually there are more overseas students and British Asians getting off the train (particularly for CL group games) but, obviously, tickets for Sunday were harder to get and more expensive.

Like lots of other newish Blues, they will have gone to Cup games where it’s easy to get tickets and built up their attendance history to get to see us against the bin dippers. They aren’t put off by cold and wet midweek or Sunday night weather. They are very welcome.

The vast majority of people who make comments about tourists aren’t racists. The ones who take pics of our foreign fans and plaster them on social media because of the fans skin colour need a rocket up the arse. I’m not talking about clowns going to the game with a Man U shop bag.
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100% mate - no different to the daily mail immigration riots. Last thing we need.

I would bet alot of our new "fans" don't just go to one off games either and go to many.
 
Can we target a home game towards the end of this season and arrange a walkout on 65mins etc...?

- Away ticketing issues.
- Away fans in the home end.
- Season ticket prices consistently going up.
- Champions League games up nearly £150 on last year.

Seems like there are more than enough issues around tickets to arrange a walkout.

As much as a boycott would be better they'd probably sell and fill the seats still.

I know people are going to bill it as not supporting the team but unfortunately you can't do both and it's the club that can make the whole situation avoidable.
 
jrb said:
You probably won't find a more racist crowd than Leeds United, bar Millwall.

God forbid Leeds get promoted and the club starts syphoning off hundreds of tickets to tourists from around the world wearing half and half Leeds United and Manchester United scarfs when they play each other next season.
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When I moved to study in Leeds, the students union paper was full of reports on how the Jewish LUFC supporters group had been battered by their own fans inside Elland Road.

A lot of British Asians in Leeds seem to support Liverpool and some have told me it’s because of Leeds Utd’s reputation for racism. There are some British Asian scum fans too and you occasionally see youngsters in rag shirts (no adults though).

As I’ve said many times on here, the trains going back across the Pennines after our midweek CL games tend to be packed with Blues.
 
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